This one-day workshop invites scholars of digital media and migration to share and critically reflect upon their experiences of conducting research while navigating the various spatial and temporal constraints during and beyond pandemic times. As the global pandemic continues to affect countries across the world, researchers can be physically immobilised in certain time and location yet also being mobilised through virtual and digital connections. As such, such landscape warrants a critical inquiry. Importantly, the practices and environments of researchers that facilitate the deployment of research methods may reflect the politics of movements (Cresswell, 2010), potentially exposing individuals who struggle, suffer, and are excluded despite being afforded with virtual connectivity.
 
The proposition is guided by the following aims: 

• Map approaches in conducting research on digital media and migration during the pandemic.

• Determine the opportunities and barriers in doing research while navigating spatial and temporal constraints stirred by mobility restrictions.

• Interrogate research methods as key sites in rethinking the politics of movement in the context of digital media and migration research.

• Rethink future research methods and directions on digital media and migration in post-pandemic times.

The workshop will take place in in collaboration between the Mobilities, Diversity Multiculturalism Stream, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation and the Digital Migration Special Interest Group, part of the Governing the Digital Society research focus area at Utrecht University.

To join, register via: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfe5cRlM2guT3yggJg-V7s4U0Vd2oOYYoJul6V2OScuBdAuVA/viewform